[Samba] Re: W9x doesn't download printer drivers

[Francesco Malvezzi]

 >Your posting doesn't contain any helpful details about your
 >problem.

Sorry,

[global]
	printcap name = cups
	printing = cups
[print$]
         comment = Printer Driver
         path = /etc/samba/drivers
         browseable = yes
         guest ok = no
         read only = yes
         write list = root, at adm
[kyocera]
         comment = Stampante app.to Teresa
         invalid users = @noprint
         path = /var/spool/samba
         browseable = yes
         public = no
         guest ok = no
         writable = no
         printable = yes
         printer admin = @adm

[root#]cupsaddsmb -v -U root kyocera

Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%passwd' -c 'adddriver 
"Windows NT x86" 
"kyocera:cupsdrvr.dll:kyocera.ppd:cupsui.dll:cups.hlp:NULL:RAW:NULL"'
Printer Driver kyocera successfully installed.

Running command: smbclient //localhost/print\$ -N -U'root%passwd' -c 
'mkdir WIN40;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/401e03d9a1270 WIN40/kyocera.PPD;put 
/usr/share/cups/drivers/ADFONTS.MFM WIN40/ADFONTS.MFM;put 
/usr/share/cups/drivers/ADOBEPS4.DRV WIN40/ADOBEPS4.DRV;put 
/usr/share/cups/drivers/ADOBEPS4.HLP WIN40/ADOBEPS4.HLP;put 
/usr/share/cups/drivers/DEFPRTR2.PPD WIN40/DEFPRTR2.PPD;put 
/usr/share/cups/drivers/ICONLIB.DLL WIN40/ICONLIB.DLL;put 
/usr/share/cups/drivers/PSMON.DLL WIN40/PSMON.DLL;'
Domain=[LETTERE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.2rc1]
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION making remote directory \WIN40
putting file /var/spool/cups/tmp/401e03d9a1270 as \WIN40/kyocera.PPD 
(17699,6 kb/s) (average 17700,2 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/ADFONTS.MFM as \WIN40/ADFONTS.MFM 
(4496,7 kb/s) (average 4806,1 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/ADOBEPS4.DRV as \WIN40/ADOBEPS4.DRV 
(11623,3 kb/s) (average 7941,4 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/ADOBEPS4.HLP as \WIN40/ADOBEPS4.HLP 
(28731,9 kb/s) (average 8702,1 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/DEFPRTR2.PPD as \WIN40/DEFPRTR2.PPD 
(13163,8 kb/s) (average 8720,1 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/ICONLIB.DLL as \WIN40/ICONLIB.DLL 
(19226,2
kb/s) (average 8969,3 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/PSMON.DLL as \WIN40/PSMON.DLL 
(11199,8 kb/s) (average 9012,5 kb/s)

Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%passwd' -c 'adddriver 
"Windows 4.0" 
"kyocera:ADOBEPS4.DRV:kyocera.PPD:NULL:ADOBEPS4.HLP:PSMON.DLL:RAW:ADOBEPS4.DRV:kyocera.PPD,ADOBEPS4.HLP,PSMON.DLL,ADFONTS.MFM,DEFPRTR2.PPD,ICONLIB.DLL"'
Printer Driver kyocera successfully installed.

Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%passwd' -c 'setdriver 
kyocera kyocera'
Succesfully set kyocera to driver kyocera.

[root]# ls -R /etc/samba/drivers/WIN40/
/etc/samba/drivers/WIN40/:
0  ADFONTS.MFM  DEFPRTR2.PPD  ICONLIB.DLL  PSMON.DLL

/etc/samba/drivers/WIN40/0:
ADOBEPS4.DRV
ADOBEPS4.HLP  kyocera.PPD

I hope it could help.

 >So only one idea crosses my mind: there is a difference in
 >the supported length of printer names to be used by WIN40
 >(== NT/2K/XP) and W32X86 (== 95/98/ME) clients....

Thank you for the helpful hint. But "kyocera" is shorter than 8 chars.

Francesco